{"id":803,"date":"2008-04-17T02:19:57","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T02:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=238"},"modified":"2008-04-17T02:19:57","modified_gmt":"2008-04-17T02:19:57","slug":"41608","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=803","title":{"rendered":"4\/16\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the first things Pope Benedict XVI said on his plane coming into \u00a0America \u00a0dealt with the issue of \u00a0immigration. \u00a0 According to a <em>New York Times<\/em> article, the pope said that we should mobilize many more efforts into poverty stricken countries to help people become as sustainable as possible in their families, their neighborhoods, their culture&#8230;. so they don&#8217;t feel compelled to leave because of lack of hope. \u00a0 This, too, is the essence (in the long term) \u00a0of our platform on immigration. \u00a0 <strong>Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 I mean, think about it. \u00a0 If you&#8217;d lived in Peoria, Illinois, USA all your life with family, friends, neighbors, the Chicago Cubs&#8230; would you want to just up and move to Juarez, Mexico. \u00a0 Then again, maybe I shouldn&#8217;t have used Peoria as an example. \u00a0 (There goes a few votes, huh.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the first things Pope Benedict XVI said on his plane coming into \u00a0America \u00a0dealt with the issue of \u00a0immigration. \u00a0 According to a New York Times article, the pope said that we should mobilize many more efforts into <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=803\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}